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Washington, D.C.’s Tipped Workers Will Soon Have a Higher Minimum Wage
The 2022 Midterms had loads of points on the poll. In Washington, D.C., one among them was the query of the tipped minimal wage. Initiative 82 moved to lift the minimal wage for tipped staff from $5.35 up a greenback yearly till it reaches D.C.’s present minimal wage of $16.10 per hour. In line with Eater, 74% of voters supported Initiative 82, which is able to go into impact subsequent yr.
The minimal wage for non-tipped staff will have to be paid to all staff by 2027. It was a preferred initiative amongst voters as a result of it’s believed that growing the minimal wage would enhance pay for staff and stop wage theft. In fact, there have been detractors of the initiative as nicely, together with smaller and impartial eating places. Some staff additionally apprehensive they might make much less by way of the hourly minimal wage than by way of the tip construction.
“I am ashamed to say in 2018 I used to be anti-77, after which I did some touring and talked to bartenders in California, Oregon … and all of them unanimously most popular not having tip credit score and making an actual minimal wage beneath all their suggestions,” Maxwell Halwa, a bartender and organizer, instructed DCist. “And it made me understand I would been lied to.”
Presently, eight US states haven’t got a tipped minimal wage that’s totally different from its customary minimal wage. In line with the US Division of Labor, the bottom quantity tipped staff could make per hour is $2.13 per hour. Even within the states paying the bottom minimal wage of $7.25 per hour, that’s nonetheless considerably larger than the bottom authorized wage for tipped staff.
It stays to be seen how this can have an effect on staff and the restaurant business at massive. Irrespective of the place you might be in the US although, it is best to nonetheless be tipping your servers!
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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 26th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.
MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next, WORLD commentator Cal Thomas on a bad Christmas tradition in Washington D.C.
CAL THOMAS: When Washington politicians speak of a Christmas tree this time of year, they are not referring to an actual tree. It means they’ve loaded up a bill with another kind of “green,” the kind that’s decorated with money.
The “bipartisan” bill passed just before midnight last Friday, minutes before a government “shutdown” would be an embarrassment to anyone but the politicians who voted for it. Like Christmas, this scenario gets played out almost every year with no regard for the growing debt.
The first bill was more than 1,500 pages. Elon Musk denounced it and suddenly it shrunk to over 100 pages, but that was too little for the big spenders. What passed last week at 118 pages may take days to digest, but you can be sure of one thing: pork is part of it. Always is.
For the last ten years, Republican Senator Rand Paul has published what he calls a “Festivus” report on just some of the wasteful spending in which our Congress is engaged. His latest – and you should Google it to see it all – includes the following:
Some of the highlights – or lowlights as I like to call them — include funding for the National Endowment for the Arts to subsidize ice-skating drag queens and promoting city park circuses. Additionally, the Department of the Interior invested in the construction of a new $12 million Las Vegas Pickleball complex. Interior also allocated $720,479 to wetland conservation projects for ducks in Mexico. This year, the Department of State is featured eleven times, with expenditures including $4.8 million on Ukrainian influencers, $32,596 on breakdancing, $2.1 million for Paraguayan Border Security (what about security at our border?), $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil, and much more!
Hey, it’s not their money, it’s our money.
At least this time a pay raise for members didn’t make it to the final bill. Members should be having their pay cut, not raised, for under-performing.
Perhaps Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk can do something about the misspending that has led to the unsustainable $36 trillion dollar debt with interest of $1 trillion dollars just this year.
Others have tried and failed to break the spending habit. Maybe they will succeed this time, but the odds are not good. It’s not called “the swamp” for nothing.
I hope you had a Happy Christmas. Your politicians did.
I’m Cal Thomas.
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